3RD-ORDER NONLINEAR OPTICS OF NA CLUSTERS BOUND TO DIELECTRIC SURFACES

Authors
BALZER F RUBAHN HG
Citation
F. Balzer et Hg. Rubahn, 3RD-ORDER NONLINEAR OPTICS OF NA CLUSTERS BOUND TO DIELECTRIC SURFACES, Chemical physics letters, 238(1-3), 1995, pp. 77-81
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical
Journal title
Chemical physics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00092614
Volume
238
Issue
1-3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
77 - 81
Database
ISI
SICI code
0009-2614(1995)238:1-3<77:3NOONC>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
The third-order nonlinear optical response of collective Na ensembles ('clusters'), bound to mica surfaces, has been studied using cw lasers in a backward-propagating degenerate four-wave-mixing (DFWM) geometry . Large values of chi((3)) are found, which are independent of cluster size for a range of cluster size diameters between 60 and 240 Angstro m.